Hi Felipe, On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 16:24, femorandeira <femorande...@igalia.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:14:12 +0100, Roberto Guido <bob4...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I think enforcing "search" against "browsing" could be a good >> compromise [...] >> >> If massively used and integrated in >> the DE, the user could forget folders and just search what needed from >> time to time instead of browsing his own folder hierarchy. [...] >> >> A Spotlight-like application can completely substitute the file >> manager >> > > Then why are people still using the file browser much more often than > searching for their documents, even when the filesystem has remain > basically the same and search tools have kept on improving? yeah, you're absolutely correct. The tools have improved a lot, but none of the technologies has been installed into the default distribution's UI in a generative place. The first change we surely need to advance the semantic abilities of our DEs is to add a tagging system to the "Save as.." dialog window.
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